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Butler/Section 2 (II)/4/8
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GB 275 Butler/Section 2 (II)/4/8
Title
Manuscript draft of an article on Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, by Samuel Butler
Date(s)
- Oct. 1887 (Circa, or later.) (Creation)
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11 sheets paper
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Scope and content
Autograph manuscript by Samuel Butler, containing the draft of an unpublished article on Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. The draft begins: 'In a letter to the Athenaeum of Feb 20 1886 I dealt at some length with some recent attempts to disparage the genuineness of the Louvre picture till lately in the Salon Carre & also till lately said to represent Gentile Bellini & his younger brother Giovanni...'. The last four sheets attached to the manuscript contain a draft of a letter, in French, inscribed by Samuel Butler: 'I sent this letter with hardly an alteration to M. Kempfen (?) directuer des Musees Nationaux, Oct. 5. 1887.'